Package Details: icecat 115.18.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: icecat
Description: GNU version of the Firefox ESR browser
Upstream URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git
Keywords: browser esr gnuzilla web
Licenses: MPL-2.0
Submitter: None
Maintainer: figue (xiota)
Last Packager: xiota
Votes: 250
Popularity: 0.35
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC)

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xiota commented on 2024-02-26 07:32 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-08 03:44 (UTC) by xiota)

PKGBUILD has been updated. Major changes:

  • Downloads Firefox ESR and localization using the source array. Files are saved for reuse.
  • Saves freshly patched IceCat sources in a tarball for reuse.
  • Saves the PGO profile for reuse.

Notes:

  • Currently requires clang/llvm 17, which has to be built from AUR.
  • Wayland users, consider setting _build_pgo_xvfb=false. This will use xwayland-run for profiling.
  • PGO should work now, but if it doesn't and you're willing to go without, try _build_pgo=false.
  • Running out of RAM? Try adding mk_add_options MOZ_PARALLEL_BUILD=___ around line 300. Pick a value less than number of cores and free RAM in GB. For example, on a system with 8 cores, 64GB total RAM, but only 6 GB free, the value should be set to 4 or 5.
    • If a few people can confirm this is helpful, I will consider adding it as an additional option.
    • Main resource hog seems to be linking libxul.so. Leave a comment if you have a potential solution.

Having problems? Please provide details: processor make and model, number of cores, free -m, full log in pastebin, whether using AUR helper/makepkg/clean chroot, etc.

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figue commented on 2014-10-08 20:33 (UTC)

i686 package uploaded to: http://mirror.lnx.im/icecat/testing/icecat-31.1.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

figue commented on 2014-10-08 16:16 (UTC)

New pre-release is up! You can build the package with this tarball [1] And, if you want to install a pre-compiled package, you can download for x86_64 in [2]. I will upload as soon as I can i686 package. Some notes (copy&paste from Rubén announcement): - It is based on Firefox 31 ESR. I decided to stick to the ESR upstream releases (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/) because they provide security updates over a stable base. This way we won't have to fight with changes in the APIs we base our features on. That will also eventually allow to port privacy features from TorBrowser, which is being upgraded to follow v31 ESR too. - To filter privacy trackers I modified Adblock Plus to allow filter subscriptions to be optionally enabled during Private Browsing mode. I did some other small changes, along with removing the "acceptable ads" pseudofeature. Because of all this I decided to rebrand the extension to "Spyblock", to avoid confusion with the upstream project. I also set custom lists at http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/filters/ and I made a point of preserving self-served advertisement, as the goal is not to block ads but to preserve privacy. That's another reason for rebranding. - I compiled binary packages for GNU/Linux using Trisquel 6, both for 32 and 64 bit. Those binaries should work in most recent distros. These are the ones I'm more certain that should work: Trisquel 6 and 7, Ubuntu Precise or newer, Debian Wheezy, testing and sid. Please test in other distros and send reports of success and any bugs you find. - Video in h264 format (youtube, vimeo...) only shows a black screen in my machines, but so do the precompiled Firefox bundles, so I guess they need to be compiled in a less "portable" way for that feature to work. It seems to work when packaged for Trisquel. - Packagers are welcome! We want to get the package in other distros and also compiled for MacOS and Windows. [1] http://mirror.lnx.im/icecat/testing/icecat-31.1.1-1.src.tar.gz [2] http://mirror.lnx.im/icecat/testing/icecat-31.1.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

figue commented on 2014-09-13 23:27 (UTC)

For those who don't know, IceCat has new maintainer: Rubén Rodríguez He released a testing version (based on Firefox 31.0). I've successfully build it on my system, but I need to do it in a clean chroot (using extra-x86_64-build), otherwise I get a segfault :P If somebody wants to play with it, download this tarball: http://mirror.lnx.im/icecat/testing/icecat-31.0-1.src.tar.gz

dape commented on 2014-07-16 08:13 (UTC)

thanks figue, i managed to compile with makepkg on the i5, now im trying on the c2d.

figue commented on 2014-07-15 20:47 (UTC)

i686 uploaded to my repo: http://mirror.lnx.im/icecat/repo/i686/icecat-24.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

figue commented on 2014-07-15 19:01 (UTC)

You can use my prebuild package on my repo: http://mirror.lnx.im/icecat/repo/x86_64/icecat-24.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz I'm trying to build i686 with extra-i686-build script.

dape commented on 2014-07-15 17:24 (UTC)

this breaks on both a i5 with 8 gb ram and a core2duo with 4 gb ram.. impossible to build..

hiato commented on 2014-06-21 11:54 (UTC)

ajs124: Good hunch! Indeed that was the problem, I allocated a swapfile and everything went A-OK (though now I am experiencing icecat instability, but that's another issue). Thank you for the tip-off :) (Curious that I can build the kernel in ram but not a web browser :P) For future reference: you need just more than 4G of available memory to do this, so if you have 4G ram, allocate a 1G swapfile to be safe.

<deleted-account> commented on 2014-06-20 19:04 (UTC)

Crash while linking libxul.so with stalling pc? Sound like OOM to me. Does you dmesg output say anything about out-of-memory or the oom killer? And how much RAM do you have?

hiato commented on 2014-06-20 18:55 (UTC)

This fails to build for me too, using both makepkg and extra-x86_64-build (-c). It seems to arrive at linking before failing with the latter, and fails earlier with the former. At linking it seems to completely stall my computer before it dies. With the devtools script it fails with collect2: error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] /build/icecat/src/icecat-24.0/config/rules.mk:1023: recipe for target 'libxul.so' failed make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1 make[5]: *** Deleting file 'libxul.so'

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